President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed Vladyslav Vlasiuk as
Commissioner for Sanctions Policy on Aug. 16, as per a decree on the Office of
the President’s website.
According to the Chesno movement, Vladyslav
Vlasiuk is a lawyer who has served as an unpaid advisor to the Office of the
President since 2020. In April 2022, he became the secretary of the
International Working Group on Anti-Russian Sanctions.
From September 2021 to April 2022, Vlasiuk was an advisor to
the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food.
In 2015–2016, he held leadership positions in the Patrol
Police Department, and from 2017 to 2019, he served as the Director General of
the Directorate for Human Rights at the Ministry of Justice.
On Aug. 10, the president mentioned in his
evening address that Ukraine is preparing new sanction measures to further
restrict the aggressor country.